This Friday, theaters will be filled with our fellow LEGO Maniacs as our childhood (and now adult) obsession finally hits the big screen in “The LEGO Movie”. Its mix of computer animation and actual stop-motion LEGO action has stoked the fires of our fandom to the point that we just had to take another look at housing through a LEGO lens. In keeping with the Hollywood theme, we decided to see how many of the bricks it would take to create full-size plastic versions of some of the famous movie homes we’ve evaluated over the years. Not just how many it would take, but how much they’d all cost, too. So, grab some popcorn and let’s roll film.

This magical castle where Harry Potter learns all things wizarding has been recreated on a smaller scale by master LEGO builders in the past, but if you really wanted to construct a one-to-one replica of Dumbledore’s spellbinding residence from plastic bricks, you’d need more than a billion of them. That’s just to make the outside; it wouldn’t include any of the unique touches, from the chandeliers of the great hall and moving staircases to Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom and the Chamber of Secrets.

It’s a good thing you can order a lot of bricks directly from LEGO in whichever colors you’d like, because you’d need around nine million in a mix of black, white, and grey to reproduce this motion picture musical farmhouse at full scale. Actually, given how run down the place looked in the movie, building it out of plastic blocks might actually be an upgrade. Then again, if it got really hot out, you’d have to worry about it… melting.

The smallest movie house you’ll read about in this piece, Yoda’s hut is nevertheless home to one of the most important characters in film history. Seriously, judge it not by its size. With just shy of two million bricks, you could recreate a full-size version of the pint-sized Jedi Master’s Dagobah lean-to, which, unlike the film version, wouldn’t need the Force to hold it together—and would be nicely waterproof.

Getting the legs to be animated would require quite the engineering feat, but with about 77 million bricks you’d be able to produce a pretty convincing scale model of this iconic walking fortress from the classic Hayao Miyazaki film. Of course, you wouldn’t want to let Calcifer inside, unless you want several tons of molten plastic on your hands.

LEGO actually sells an official set based on Tony Stark’s movie mansion that contains 364 pieces. If you really wanted to build a full-scale plastic version of this Iron Man-sion, however, you’d need almost 95 million pieces. That’s nearly 261,000 times as many, at a cost of $9.4 million, but that’s okay—Tony can afford it.

The “real” Fortress of Solitude is made out of Kryptonian crystal—7.1 million cubic feet of it. We used diamond as a stand-in for our property evaluation, which put a price tag of $814 trillion on Superman’s super-pad. That said, a plastic copy would set you back a much more reasonable $149 billion. Who are we kidding—that’s still astronomical, and makes this the most expensive life-size LEGO kit on our list by far.

We hope Professor X wasn’t reading our minds while we wrote this, since he’d probably think we’re insane. When you need more than 224 million LEGO bricks to construct a full-size model of a mansion, you’d better hope you know a mutant with the power to turn air into plastic. Hey, that gave us a great idea for a new comic! Stan Lee, we’re ready to talk about Plastic Tornado when you are.

Just before we wrote this, LEGO announced that it will be selling an official Ghostbusters Ecto-1 set (with minifigs of the boys in grey!) later this year to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. Much to the chagrin of Ghostbustin’ buffs, the set won’t include the iconic firehouse building, but we’re sure there are some super-fans out there who would gladly eat their weight in Stay-Puft marshmallows if it meant getting the 35 million bricks—a Gozer-sized figure—needed to build a full-scale replica.

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The cockeyed home of Ron Weasley’s family was the second “Harry Potter” property we evaluated, and while it’s quite a lot smaller than Hogwarts it would still take more than 12 million bricks to build at full-size. As with Howl’s Moving Castle, we imagine it would take some major engineering skills to recreate its most famous moving part: the family member-finding Weasley Clock.

At more than one million square feet, the Sultan’s Palace from Disney’s beloved animated classic “Aladdin” is the largest fictional movie property we’ve evaluated (so far). You’d need 5.9 billion bricks to erect a full-size clone of the lavish building, not to mention a whole new world’s worth of space to put it.

We used the dimensions of a king-size bed to measure Sirius Black’s family home at 12 Grimmauld Place, but we certainly wouldn’t want to sleep on a LEGO bed—no matter how big it was. You’ll get no argument from us over the fact that 19 million LEGO bricks is a serious amount for anyone to try to store. That’s why you might want to just claim you’ve got a Fidelius Charm and the place is just invisible, rather than plunking down $1.9 million for all that plastic.

It would take an ungodly 873 million bricks to replicate this god’s shiny bachelor pad in the real world—or in Asgard, for that matter. It would surely cost a lot less than recreating the bifrost bridge in rainbow-hued bricks, but just imagine the mess it would make if Thor accidentally dropped Mjolnir in just the right place. Forsooth!

Belle was willing to look past the Beast’s outward appearance, but we wonder if she’d be as forgiving if the monstrous prince confessed a love of playing with LEGO? At least if his castle was made from the bricks, repairing Chip would be a snap. Plus, with 241 million pieces to go around, if someone wanted to try building a talking candlestick or something, Beast would be able to say “be my guest.”

Katniss and the other youths who battled in the Hunger Games didn’t really have a chance for childhood staples like LEGO, and the whole thing is kind of a grim affair to try and recreate in brightly colored plastic. Still, we can’t help but grin at the idea of a minifig Peeta baking tiny loaves of LEGO bread and who knows—maybe constructing things out of interlocking bricks could become Panem’s new, much less violent, competitive sports craze?

Bilbo Baggins doesn’t strike us as the kind of Hobbit who’d play with LEGO. In fact, he’s probably yell at people for getting them all over the place. He’d probably like the idea of being able to make easy repairs after the dwarves stopped by, though. Plus, if he only pocketed a few pieces of Smaug’s treasure, he’d be able to afford the $2.4 million it would cost to build a new, brick-ier Bag End out of 24 million blocks.

LEGO didn’t even exist in the late 1930s or early 1940s when “A Christmas Story” is set, but we have to imagine that, if they did, Ralphie might just have asked Santa for them instead of a Red Ryder BB Gun. After all, he wouldn’t have to worry about putting an eye out with them; the worst he’d have to contend with is stepping on one while barefoot. Plus, if his dad’s major award was made from them, just imagine how easy it would’ve been to fix.

Just imagine what would have happened if, upon their deaths, the Maitlands received not only a “Handbook For The Recently Deceased” but 13 million LEGO bricks and a manual on how to put them all together into a life-size version of their home. After all, Adam does like putting together model buildings. It would also be pretty easy to put everything back the way it was after Delia remodeled. LEGO bricks, LEGO bricks, LEGO bricks!

Brick-It-Yourself

Didn’t see your favorite movie house? If you know how big it is, you can punch the number into our LEGO calculator and see how many bricks it’d be. Of course, you can also enter your own home’s size, too, and at least pretend you’re living like a silver screen legend. Bear in mind that these are approximations (and don’t include interior details), so make sure to do detailed math before placing your order for bricks at the LEGO store.